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"Often fought, sometimes defeated, never depressed" It was a motto of François Athanase Charette de la Contrie.
François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796) was a Franco-Breton Royalist soldier and politician.
He served in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of the Revolt in the Vendée against the French Revolution.
A new movie will appear in Cinema to 2023 january with a name "Vaincre ou Mourir" (Vanquish or Die):
It's a first movie to create by a PUY DU FOU, who we are accounting a epic and wild life of François Athanase Charette de la Contrie.
He is a Vendéen hero, who had towered again a Republique (First republique during a French storie) untill his dead.
The saga of François Athanase Charette de la Contrie, a movie it's a storie of Charette who are telling by Charette himself.
We fallow his epic aventure of this Vendéen hero, very famous by his bravery, charismas and his indepence spirit.
During a year of 1793 in Vendée (France) a former officer of royal french marine Charette had called for help by a poor farmer for his toke ordered of them.
François Athanase Charette de la Contrie had accepted his role after a long time of reflection.
Charette and his farmer army were joining a Royal and Catholic army.
Charrette was commanding and win a several battles and a infernal Cohort had destroyed a Vendée région, a deal of pieace had signated.
François Athanase Charette de la Contrie keep waiting, he had affected by a dead of Louis XVII (a son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette).
Charette Toke a weapon again, He will beat with his poor farmer army with a guerilla technic untill his been captured and his dead.
This movie will get out in January 2023 it's absoluty must see for who want understand what a french spirit mean.
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